Essential Grammar in Use

Choose the correct synonym of the underlined word. 1. Chips remained ragged at Melbury for some time. A) happy B) sorrowful C) anxious and tired D) well dressed 2. Taking his first class was a tremendous ordeal   for him. A) joy B) trial C) threat D) opportunity 3. Chips assumed a scowl   in his first class at Brookfield A) confidence B) admire C) clutch D) frown 4. Brookfield building centred upon a quadrangle .  A) rectangle B) square or rectangular  C) long and high D) beyond the land 5. The school went up and down, dwindling almost to non-existent. A) supreme B) fall C) conditioned D) renown 6. People confessed that they rather thought they had heard of it.  A) conceited B) accepted C) told D) restored 7. But that didn't matter, It was convenient that was the main thing. A) economic B) appropriate C) entitled D) renovated 8. It was so placid and calm for Chips.  A) furnished B) hectic C) sufficient D) serene 9. It seemed to him full of distasteful in...